[rds-devel] RDS code in OFED 1.3

Vladimir Sokolovsky vlad at mellanox.co.il
Thu Nov 15 01:43:28 PST 2007


On Thursday 15 November 2007 11:12:21 Olaf Kirch wrote:
> Or,
>
> On Thursday 15 November 2007 09:48, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> > Till we resolve the maintainer and what RDS version goes into OFED 1.3
> > issues, can you open a git tree for RDS under the open fabrics server,
> > with two
> > branches, one  for v2 and one for v3 so you can pull from there to
> > OFED 1.3 and 1.2.5.X ? I don't think its a correct way to work with
> > all the RDS patches going directly to the tree where integration being
>
> Um, didn't you just complain the other day that these patches were missing
> from the 1.3 tree? :-)
>
> > done. I even found this email below where you guys agreed to open such
> > tree, it just never happened.
>
> I fail to understand why you want that. It's not like RDS is a huge
> subsystem that is going to see a high sustained rate of code churn.
>
> It's certainly possible to set up a git repository or two, but I see
> no point in doing so unless Vlad says it's the way he prefers
> to be fed these changes.
>
> Olaf

I prefer to work with RDS under ofed_kernel git tree as it works now.
The main reason is that this way RDS can use common backport patches. 
Otherwise it will be a lot of work to support the same backport patches in 
the different git trees.

Regards,
Vladimir



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